The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1887-06-29
INCIDENTS ALONG THE ROUTE.
THE DISPLAY OF POPULAR LOVE FOR
THE QUEEN.
HOW 1T DELIGHTED HER.
The Nobility and Intellect of Europe
Assembled Within the Walls of
Famed Westminster.

LONDON. June 22-The jubilee demon.
stration was a stupendous success. Vast
multitudes, numbering overa million peo-
| Pile, witnessed tie greatest state pageant
! in England's history. With the perfec-
/ ton of order not single accideat occur
red to mar the harmony ofthe great dem
onstration The scene presented by long
lines of streets, with draped buildings,
endless floral vistas. innumerable flags,
banners and trophies blended into mass
! es of decorations and an eyer-moving, inn
/ measurable sea of faces, has been one of
dazzling brilliancy and marvellous aniina-
ton. The impression left in the minds
of those that saw the pageant is that
whatever boundless wealth, military
pomp and illustrious rank could do to
create and heighten the effect of the
States show of loyalty to demonstrate
the affection of the people for their SOW
ereign was done for to-days demonstra-
ton, and the result surpasse anything of
the kind ever seen in Europe in modern
times, at least.
A day of glorious sunshine, an atmos-
phere of rare purity for these latitudes,
and 4 sky of clearest blue favored the
spectacle People who camped out all
night, or who had risen early in the NOR
ming in order to seea,e places on the line
of march passed the time pleasantly ieve ~
moment from dawn downward present
ing some new transformation. Sunrise
saw the roads toward the route OF the
procession covered with crowds. BY s
o'clock massed myriads along the route
became so compact tnat it was impossi-
BILE to move.
At 10 y. IN. beacon fires We're lighted
simultaneously on all the principal peaks
from Cornwall TO the remotest part of
Caithness, forming a connected chain of
signals over the whole country. In Lon
don this evening all the thoroughfares
from HYDE Park to the Bank of England
are SO crowded with spectators that they
are almost impossible. 1t is estimated
that half million sightseers were added
to the masses of the populace Of the me-
tropolis, making the largest crowds ever
seen in London, yet under full self-con-
troll, and the night passed so quietly that
there was no need for the police TO main
tain order.
9 A. NAT this hour the traffic of all
wheeled vehicles has been resumed. In
mense crowds were gathered everywhere
throughout the night, dispensing slowly,
to be sure, but in the best of good huinor.
The illuminations were of the most gor-
geous description. A light cooling breeze
prevailed throughout the evening. The
finest display in the nature of illumina-
ton was given in the square fronting on
the Royal Exchange, which, together
with the Mansion House, was covered
with beautiful and novel designs of col
ored oil lamps The whole front of the
bank was in graceful festoons of gaslights.
This, perhaps, was the grandest sight in
London, although there were many note
worthy speciacles, particularly that which
Bond street presented, with its lines Of
yenitian masts, festoons offlowers for the
whole len sth on each side Of the street,
while at intervals of a few yards from
strings of buntings stretched across the
street from window to window depend
lighted Chinese lanterns.
There were enchanting devices in oil
and gas at almost every house, and occa-
sional triumphal arches presented, per-